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Article: WORLD COURT FALLS SHORT ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS VOTE.(Editorial)(Editorial)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 10, 1996
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The disheartening thing about the World Court's welcome conclusion that nuclear weapons should be outlawed in war is that seven of the court's 14 judges thought otherwise.
It took an apparently daring affirmative vote by the president of the court, Mohammed Bedjaoui of Algeria, to break the tie and put the court on the side of humanity in an advisory, nonbinding finding.
But the court found itself unable to say whether it was legal for a nation facing destruction to use nuclear weapons.
Advocates of outlawing nuclear weapons say that since they are inherently designed for mass killing, they are immoral and contrary to basic concepts of human ...